Host-process crash via resource-exhausting templates
Published Aug 16, 2026 · Updated Aug 16, 2026
Denial of service in Scriban before 7.0.0 allows attackers to crash the host process via crafted templates that exhaust memory or CPU. Expression evaluation mishandles untrusted operands in ScriptBinaryExpression by building repeated strings with no bound, shifting BigIntegers left with no cap, and yielding ranges that builtin functions fully enumerate outside LoopLimit and LimitToString. Reachability depends on an application accepting attacker-supplied templates; a single expression can trigger OutOfMemoryException or prolonged CPU exhaustion, and the issue does not imply data access or code execution.
Summary
What happened
Denial of service in Scriban before 7.0.0 allows attackers to crash the host process via crafted templates that exhaust memory or CPU. Expression evaluation mishandles untrusted operands in ScriptBinaryExpression by building repeated strings with no bound, shifting BigIntegers left with no cap, and yielding ranges that builtin functions fully enumerate outside LoopLimit and LimitToString. Reachability depends on an application accepting attacker-supplied templates; a single expression can trigger OutOfMemoryException or prolonged CPU exhaustion, and the issue does not imply data access or code execution.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-74785
- Published
- Aug 16, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 16, 2026
- Vendor
- Scriban
- Product
- Scriban
- Classifications
- CWE-400, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Aug 16, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 16, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=0 <7.0.0
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Public exploit references
- Upstream resource-exhaustion proof-of-concept templatesproof of concept · demonstrated
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